Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-10

To increase the limit Of the cost of pub
lie buildings at Peoria, ILL.,, and Keokuk,
Iowa
For the completion Of the improvement
of public buildings at Des Moines, la.
Forty House joint resolutions became
laws, the principal ones are:
Directing the commissioner of labor
to make an investigation as to convict
labor.
To authorize the President to protect
American fishing vessels and Americans
fishing in Canadian water
Authorizing the investigation of the
books. methods and accounts of the Pa
cific railroads.
OF the total number of bills which
passed the Senate. 800 became laws, in
Guiding 1l5 of public and POS of private
nature. The following is list of the
most important Senate bills placed on
the statute books by tho late Con-
gress:
Presidential succession bill, devolving
the heirship of the Presidency upon a
member of the cabinet in case of vacan-
cy in the Office of President and Vice.
President.
Cullom Reagan bill. to regulate inter.
State commerce.
For retirement and recoinage of trade
dollars.
Electoral count bill
For the allotmenc of lands in scveralty
to Indians and extending protection of
laws to Indians on various reservations
To repeal tenure of Office act
To increase the annual appropriation
for the militia
To establish agricultural experiment
stations.
For the study of effects of narcotics and
intoxicants in public schools.
To legalize the incorporation of trades
unions.
Authorizing the transmission of weather
reports through the mails free Of post.
age.
TO increase the pension for the loss of
an arm or leg.
To indemnify the Chinese for losses
sustained by the Rock Springs, Wyo.,
riots.
For the relief of Texas, Colorado, Ore
gon, Nebraska, California Kansas, Wash
ington Territories and Idaho.
Authorizing the sale of certain govern
ment property in Chicago.
To remove the charge of desertion from
the records Of the soldiers who re enlist.
ed without having received discharges on
account of their first enlistment.
To establish two land districts in Ne
braska.
To amend the law relating to patents.
To authorize the Postmaster General to
allow compensation for the railroad a.
partment car service furnished pursuant
to agreement.
To bridge the Mississippi river at St.
Louis.
To allow the receivers of national banks
to buy in trust property on the approval
of the comptroller of the currency.
To provide for the execution of Article
2 of the Chinese treaty of Nov. II, 1880.
Ut prohibits the importation of opium
into either country by citizens of the
other.)
For the erection of a public building at
Milwaukee, Wis.
OF the foregoing measures, became
laws by expiration of the constitutional
polygamy bill, trade dollar redemption
bill, militia bill and four private bills.
The Senate bills vetoed were 80 in num-
Der, II being of public and % Of pri-
vate character
luc DlIlS NctOBu WcTc us IOlIOWS.
To quiet the title of settlers on the Des
Moines river lands passed over the veto in
the Senate but failed of the necessary
two-thirds in the House; for the erection
of public buildings at GAINESVILLE, o., La
Fayette, Ind, Sioux City, Ia, Dayton,
O., passed over the veto in both Houses,
and Lynn. Mass. to extend the provisions
of the immediate transportation act to
Omaha, Neb.; to grant a railroad right Of
way through the Indian reservations in
Northern Montana.
The House bills vetoed included 81 pri-
vate bills and 6 bills of public nature
The public bills vetoed were for the cree
ton of federal buildings at Springfield,
Mo-, Duluth, Mimi, Ashevillc, N. c. and
Portsmouth, o.; to distribute $4,000
worth of seeds among the drought-strick-
en- people of Texas and to grant pensions
to dependent soldiers and dependent rela-
tives of deceased soldiers. An Of.
fort made to pass tho dependent
pension bill over the veto failed. Regular
appropriation bills which failed of enact
mcnt were the Fortifcations bill for both
Congresses; river and harbor bill of the
present session (Which was not signed by
the PresidenD, and the deficiency bill, on
which the cOnferees' report was not sub
mitted in time for action. The failure of
the Fertilization bill was due to the differ.
ence of opinion between the conferees of
the two Houses
Fifty bills in addition to these which
became laws and those vetoed were sent
TO The President, but were ''pocketcd"
by him on adjournment of Congress, and
therefore failed. The most important are
as follows: The river and harbor; to
prevent employment of convict and alien
labor on public works; ONeill labor
arbitration bill for the settlement of con-
troversies between inter state railroads
and their employees: Morrison surplus resol.
ution bills establishing additional aids to
navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi,
the bill FORGETTING land grant to railroad
from Ontenagon to the Wisconsin State
line also failed in conference, while the
bill to create a department of agriculture
and labor was killed by the inability Of
its friends to send it to the conference
committee. About $50 bills and JOINT
resolutions which passed the House failed
of action in the Senate, some of which,
however, were defeated by adverse com.
mittee reports. About $50 bills passed
by the Senate failed of passage in the
House.
The Cameron-Halc twin bills, appro-
priating S35, 000.0 900 for the increase Of
the navy, were sent to the naval commit.
tee and died there. although provision
for additional vessels was inserted in the
naval appropriation bill. The two forti-
fication bills, which passed the Senate,
were allowed to sleep in the House
appropriations committee rooms. The
Dakota admission bill still slum-
bers on the House calendar.
The bill for the admission of Wash
ington Territory failed of action, as
did the bill to grant Dearborn Park to the
city of Chicago. The following measures
of national importance failed of action Of
an affirmative nature in either House:
the Morrison and other tariff bills, which
congress on test vote refused even to
consider; the various bills on the silver
question; to establish uniform bank
ruptcy law; the Hennepin canal bill; the
Oklohama bill and the Dunn free ship
bill were all reported from the House
committees and all failed to get beyond
the stage of general debate The bills to
repeal the civil service law and to grant
women suffrage were killed in the House
by adverse. committee reports, and in the
Senate by adverse test votes. A resolu-
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